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7899820025Second Great AwakeningA series of religious revivals starting in 1801, based on Methodism and Baptism. Stressed a religious philosophy of salvation through good deeds and tolerance for all Protestant sects. The revivals attracted women, Blacks, and Native Americans.0
7899820026MormonsChurch established by John Smith in 1830. This group empasized moderation, salvation, and hard work.1
7899820027Seneca Falls ConventionA convention held in New York, 1848 to discuss women's rights where the Declaration of Sentiments was written in efforts to get female suffrage.2
7899820028New HarmonyA Commune established in New Harmony, Indiana by Scottish industrialist Robert Owen3
7899820029TranscendentalismPhilisophical and literary movement, centered in New England, that greatly influenced American writers of the early nineteenth century4
7899820030Civil DisobedienceA theory started by Thoreau which was later applied by Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr.5
7899820031Leaves of GrassWhitman's collection of emotional poems that generated a shocking response6
7899820032The Scarlet LetterA novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne that demonstrates the Puritanic Society's reaction to adultry, as well as guilt.7
7899820033Dorothea DixA female reformer who advocated for the mentally ill and improved conditions durastically.8
7899820034Brigham Young"Mormon Moses" who led the persecuted Latter-Day Saints to their promised land in Utah9
7899820035Elizabeth Cady StantonA woman who played a key role in the Seneca Falls Convention. She wrote the Declaration of Sentiments and advocated for women's rights10
7899820036Lucretia MottA Quaker who attended an anti-slavery convention in 1840 and her party of women was not recognized. She and Stanton called the first women's right convention in New York in 184811
7899820037Walt WhitmanAn American poet and Transcendentalist who was bold and celebrated American democracy12
7899820038Charles G. FinneyStarter of the Second Great Awakening. A preacher who scared people into salvation by preaching about the fires of Hell.13
7899820039Alexis de TocquevilleFrench author who observed American democracy14
7899820040Deismrejected the divinity of Christ and the Scientific Revolution scoffed at superstition15
7899820041Scientific RevolutionThe intellectual movement in Europe, initially associated with planetary motion and other aspects of physics, that by the seventeenth century had laid the groundwork for modern science.16
7899820042UnitarianBelieve that God existed in 1 person and disagree with the theory of the Holy Trinity. They believed that people were saved by doing good works and were not born under "original sin"17
7899820043Public EducationEstablished using tax money. Greatly influenced by Jacksonian Democracy.18
7899820044Horace Mann"Father of Public Education"19
7899820045American Temperance SocietyA group who discouraged against drinking excessively or at all for that matter. They discussed its effects on society.20
7899820046Catherine Beecherencouraged women to take jobs in teaching21
7899820047Dr. Elizabeth BlackwellThe first female doctor22
7899820048Declaration of SentimentsWritten at the Seneca Falls Convention that "all men and women were created equal"23
7899820049The ShakersA religious sect started by Mother Ann Lee who stressed simplicity in everyday life and seperation of the sexes.24
7899820050Stephen FosterWriter of several famous folk songs25

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